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David Stanley Evans
(1916 - 2004)
We are sorry to have to report the death on 14 November 2004 in Austin, Texas, of David
S. Evans who, for over twenty years, played an important and stimulating role in South
African astronomy. When he came to South Africa in 1946, fundamental positional determinations
and photometry dominated the astronomical scene. By the time he left, the
Radcliffe Observatory and the Royal Observatory Cape were active in astrophysics and the
efforts that eventually led to the establishment of SAAO were well under way. He played an ..